Chapter 473, environment is an important factor
This is probably the first time Brooklyn has faced Burke head-on. From not being able to see through Burke's disguise for a long time, being shocked by this superb means, and being afraid of the opponent's ability, to marveling at Burke's clever calculations, and becoming more and more jealous of the other party, to the later disagreement, the declaration of war head-on, and even the threat in the stairwell not long ago.
He had never been so formal, and so calmly, confronting Burke head-on. It was a powerful fear of facing the unknown.
He could only see the tip of the iceberg of Burke's abilities, and then he was deeply shocked by what he saw, and then he developed a deep fear.
Now he had finally broken through that fear and confronted Burke head-on. It dawned on him that it wasn't that hard.
Burke wasn't that scary either. His eyes were red, and he was obviously not used to staying up late and concentrating for eight or nine hours.
He had fine wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and his facial muscles, though firm, were clearly different from those of a young man - Burke was no longer young.
His cheeks are red, the major arteries in his neck are agitated, clearly visible, and he is also emotional, not a robot that can hide any emotion.
His face was full of anger, and his eyes were sharp and cold. The corners of his eyes drooped, and his lips pursed into a straight line. The wings of his nose dilated slightly.
These are the outbursts of his emotions. He was furious, extremely angry. He looked into his eyes with wariness and disgust.
Brooklyn read this, and was in a somewhat happy mood. It's a breakthrough. He couldn't tell what Burke was thinking, but now he could read Burke's emotions.
Burke wasn't that scary either. The two were still facing each other, and Anthony was still sleepily tilting his body to look at the two, and the scene was silent.
Brooklyn's phrase 'you're rude' seemed to reverberate over the room. Those who got close could even make out that the muscles near Burke's nose twitched slightly.
This is a sign of anger. Everyone's eyes widened, waiting for Burke's response. They weren't sleepy—everybody was in good spirits from the standoff between Brooklyn and Burke.
However, what they were waiting for was Brooklyn's first attack. Brooklyn looked at Burke and continued
"You've been vilifying me since the second time Professor John Manning met."
"Professor John Manning told me that if there is any trouble I can find you, you will help. When I first met you, you were also smiling and enthusiastic. ”
"As a result, I didn't expect you to be warm-hearted in front of me, and go around saying bad things about me behind my back."
"You tell Mr. John Manning that I am uninformed, that I am short-sighted. Don't you feel like a reporter for a gossip tabloid? Brooklyn shrugged and shook his head
"I don't know why, but you're inexplicably hostile to me. In order to prevent this hostility from escalating, I have tried to avoid contact with you, but I can always chase after me. Burke Forsman, chasing girls when you were young, if you have such an attachment to me, you will not be alone today. ”
"Just right, in front of everyone today." Brooklyn turned to the crowd and spread his arms slightly
"Please also answer my question, why have you been so hostile to me all along, and even go around slandering me, where did I offend you?" At the heart of today's meeting, and one that Harvard is now facing, is the irreconcilable contradiction between Brooklyn Lee, Burke Forsman, and Anthony Kennedy.
Therefore, today's meeting is essentially to provide a platform for the struggle of the three, to convene all the members, in addition to following the previous rules, but also to provide witnesses to their struggle.
As a result, Brooklyn has no qualms about sabotaging the campaign process, and no one says much. The essence is to let the contradiction between the three of them have a result, and now that they have finally entered the topic after tossing for seven or eight hours, of course they will not refuse.
Burke watched the Brooklyn show and watched him play himself as a white lotus, and laughed angrily. He has long said why he is hostile to Brooklyn, is Brooklyn selectively amnesia?
Just as he was about to answer, Anthony suddenly coughed twice, attracting everyone's attention. In full view, Anthony Kennedy stood up slowly, still looking drowsy.
He first raised his head blankly and looked around, as if he was uncomfortable with the sudden silence of the originally noisy environment, and then his eyes paused for a moment on Brooklyn and Burke before speaking.
"Burke was worried that you'd move the CPUSA set to Harvard, well, he was worried that you were influenced by the ideas of Lyry Crewe." Anthony turned his body slowly and raised his voice
"Some people may not know and don't know who Lyley Crewe is, but Lyry Crewe is ......" He briefly introduced Lyleigh Crewe's identity, including his academic career, his relationship with John and Burke, his help to John, and his parting of ways with the two.
He then introduced Lyleigh Crewe's life after leaving Harvard, including his becoming the president of CPUSA, and he did not shy away from talking about his campaigning for CPUSA over the years.
He even briefly explained the CPUSA program. For the 99.999......% of the Federalists, the public property is a terrible thing, they don't know about it, they have only heard of it from government or other partisan propaganda, and under the deliberate distortion of these propaganda, it is simply 'rich and poor' in the understanding of the Federalists.
That is, all family property will be confiscated, the individual will no longer have private property, and the individual will have nothing. This is a very terrifying thing for the people of the Federation.
Under this propaganda, many people are quite resistant to CPUSA, believing that CPUSA's claim is to take away their private property, take everything they have, and give it to others.
The Constitution of the Federation stipulates that private property is sacrosanct, and federal law provides that citizens have the right to dispose of those who infringe on private property.
With such an education, how could a Federalist accept the CPUSA? Not only will the rich not accept it, but the poor will not accept it, and the workers and peasants will not accept it...... No one accepted it except for the real homeless who had nothing.
Because it sounds like only the homeless can profit from it. This is the perception of the commonwealth of the commoners.
What is rare is that when Anthony explains, he does not distort it, but explains it fairly and objectively.
Many people at the scene looked like they had suddenly realized. After explaining, Anthony turned around again and asked Brooklyn
"I'm curious, Brooklyn, are you really a student of Lyleigh Crewe, inheriting his ideas? If you become Speaker, are you really prepared to make unspeakable changes to Harvard? Will you turn Harvard into a base camp where you can't gczy? Is it mandatory for everyone who joins the Harvard Council to have a GCZY education? Anthony stepped forward, ostensibly to ease the slightest tension between Brooklyn and Burke, but in fact he did not have such good intentions.
The old man is really tired, really old, and really slow to react. In his current state, Anthony is not fit to make big decisions – of course, everyone in the room is tired and not fit to make big decisions.
Anthony's remarks were a big decision. After the situation between the three became urgent, Brooklyn had to pick an opponent first.
He chose Burke. Originally, Anthony could stay out of the matter, watch the two fight to the death, endlessly, and then wait for the opportunity to intervene, whether it is to get benefits or participate in it, it is very good.
But after weighing it up, Anthony chose to step in. He took the initiative to turn the original two-person confrontation into a three-person scuffle.
His previous seemingly persuasive speech was to lead the war. Brooklyn and Burke turned their heads to look at Anthony in the middle of his sentence.
At this moment, Burke and Brooklyn's mental activity is surprisingly consistent - is this old man crazy?
Anthony was smearing Burke by answering questions before he did. Of course, Burke was already dark enough, and he didn't care.
But this trip represented Anthony's declaration of war on Burke. Later, Lylie Crewe, who seems to be fair, is relieving Brooklyn, but in fact is embarrassing Brooklyn.
Brooklyn was greatly favored by Lyleigh Crewe, and he was thinking of Lyleigh Crewe. But Anthony not only introduced Lyleigh Crewe's goodness, but also Lyleigh Crewe's beliefs.
Lyry Crewe is like a pagan, people don't care if there is a contradiction between the god that the pagan believes in and their own god for the time being, the contradiction is not deep, as long as it is a pagan, it itself is cast a shadow of hostility.
Not to mention the litany of unfriendly questions behind Anthony. This is a declaration of war on Brooklyn. Both Burke and Brooklyn wondered why Anthony chose to join the warband at this time instead of waiting for the right moment.
But in fact, Anthony himself has his own words of suffering. He can still barely make the right decision now, and he is afraid that if he drags it out any longer, he will fall asleep completely and will not be able to make a decision at all.
It's not the right time to join a warband, but it's better to join than to surrender! The delaying tactics of the Brooklyn arrangement finally worked.
Faced with Anthony's question, Brooklyn reacted quickly. He said, shaking his head
"Mr. Cleie Crewe has had a big impact on me, but I've already explained what I expect from Harvard, and what I see the future of Harvard looking like." He tilted his head, glanced at Anthony, and said
"I'm curious, Anthony, is it important for you to have a better life, or is this and that more important?" It's actually a very scoundrel problem.
Brooklyn didn't expect Anthony to answer—in fact, Anthony didn't intend to answer at all, he just stood there, head down, as if asleep, and didn't respond to Brooklyn's question in the slightest.
But just because Anthony didn't react doesn't mean Burke won't be unresponsive. Brooklyn turned to Burke again.
"Is that what Anthony said?" Brooklyn asked.
"Burke Forsman, can you answer the question, is it important to have a better life, or is this and that is important?" It was a question that Burke didn't need to answer at all.
His words and deeds have already given an answer. He chose perseverance. But at this moment, in the face of the dense people on the big screen, in the face of the faces of the people he didn't know and didn't care about, he couldn't speak.
The power is in the hands of these people. Burke is well aware that once he says 'isms are more important', he will usher in a wave of even more fierce opposition than before, especially at the moment, when he will lose most of his support at once, and may even withdraw from the race for Speaker.
But he can't say that life is more important. Because his past words and deeds do not think so, this kind of lie can be easily debunked.
"Burke Forsman, you answered." Brooklyn urged. Burke didn't want to answer, so Brooklyn answered for him.
"You think that's more important, right?"
"Because I may have been influenced by Mr. Lyric Crewe, you have such a strong hostility towards me...... You've made your choice. ”
"In your eyes, even if you can make Harvard better, even if it can bring more help to everyone, as long as you don't propose it, you won't be allowed to appear at Harvard, right?" Brooklyn asked aggressively
"Actually, what you really oppose is not this doctrine or that doctrine, what you really oppose is people."
"You oppose anyone who is better than you except you, and you oppose anyone who is better than you—in every way."
"You can deceive people and tell them that you don't, but you know in your heart that you are such a person."
"You use the excuse of cleaning up the cancer to clean up a large number of people in a short period of time. Do you really swear that they were purged out of public interest, and you didn't have the slightest bit of selfishness in it? "Brooklyn was unforgiving, continued to export, and tried to nail Burke Forsman directly.
But unfortunately, things did not go as he hoped. Burke Forsman was a little confused at first, on the one hand, Anthony's sudden entry into the war was too unexpected, and on the other hand, Brooklyn's question was difficult to answer.
The main thing, of course, is that the time dragged on too long, and he was too tired. This physical and mental exhaustion slowed his reactions, and he couldn't think of a way out for a while.
But he is Burke Forsman after all, not a cat or a dog. After a brief period of distraction, Burke Forsman's tired brain was back at work.
At this point in the meeting, it can be said that Brooklyn, Anthony, and Burke are competing not only in strength, but also in willpower.
The three of them have their own troubles, and under the cooperation and restraint of the three of them, intentionally or unintentionally, they have created the current situation.
None of the three were at their peak, or even at their worst. But they had to overcome the odds and put in their best performances at their worst.
Preparation in advance, on-the-spot response, and restraint from tiredness...... And this meeting of the Harvard Parliament to run for Speaker of the House has officially entered the stage of candidate debate at this moment.